The declaration puts the United States at odds with virtually all countries and UN Security Council resolutions The United States no longer believes that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are illegal, Secretary of State [ More … ]
Reports emerged this week that the Trump administration was working with the Israeli government to obstruct the publication of a United Nations “blacklist” of companies working in Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. [ More … ]
Emmanuel Macron stressed Israel must respect international law and halt the expansion of settlements in occupied Palestinian territory, urging for fresh Middle East peace talks. French President Emmanuel Macron told Israel’s visiting Prime Minister Benyamin [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday met with a delegation from the Jewish reform movement in the United States, where he discussed the peace process and Israel’s continued expansion of illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian [ More … ]
A UN resolution condemning Israeli settlement building in the occupied territories has won a showering praise in the Palestinian lands. A number of prominent Palestinian figures, including officials from the Palestinian Authority, Hamas movement as [ More … ]
The U.N. Security Council has condemned Israel’s construction of settlements, with US Ambassador Samantha Power saying the project hurts Israel’s security The U.N. Security Council has approved a resolution condemning construction of Israeli settlements in [ More … ]
The European Union (EU) expressed deep concern over Israel’s plans to construct 98 new housing units in the northern West Bank. The spokesperson for the European Union strongly condemned Israel’s plans to construct 98 new [ More … ]
The European Union released a statement on Friday condemning an Israeli decision on Wednesday to approve plans for 463 new housing units in several Israeli settlements, 179 units of which have already been constructed in [ More … ]
Upon returning from his Africa tour, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Sunday with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to discuss the Egyptian initiative to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Netanyahu meets with Egyptian FM, [ More … ]
A Palestinian car hit an Israeli army vehicle causing it to overturn on Route 60, in the Gush Etzion section of the West Bank. A Palestinian civilian was evacuated for critical injuries after his car [ More … ]
A Palestinian woman was shot dead Friday by Israeli forces near the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) after allegedly carrying out a vehicular attack, the Israeli army and the Palestinian Health Ministry have said, [ More … ]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Rome on Sunday to try to fend off pressure from the United States and Europe over his settlements policy and opposition to a French-led effort to forge peace [ More … ]
The Israeli government is expected to approve the allocation of an additional 60 million shekels (about $15.5 million) to settlements in the occupied West Bank due to the “worsening security situation” in the territory, according [ More … ]
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, in its annual report titled Fragmented Lives: Humanitarian Overview 2015, that the major drivers of humanitarian vulnerability in Palestine remained unchanged due to Israel’s protracted occupation It said: “In 2015, the [ More … ]
The Arab League has rejected the nomination of Israel to take the presidency of the UN General Assembly’s Sixth Counter-Terrorism Committee, which is concerned with combating terrorism. The Arab League’s Secretary General, Nabil al-Arabi, notified [ More … ]
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